Business and Economics
Faculty in the Department of Business and Economics who have been featured in our Faculty Scholarship Showcase.
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Arlene Nicholas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Faculty Fellow, Graduate Program Coordinator
Business Studies and Economics | Healthcare Administration and Management
It is Dr. Arlene Nicholas' great fortune to have a career at her alma mater. Her past work in management, including profit and nonprofit sectors, as well as consulting complements her teaching, research and writing. Educating students about critical management methods in a variety of areas is an exciting challenge. Today’s global and technological environment requires extensive communication and management skills. Enhancing students’ abilities in analytical thinking and writing while instilling the importance of continuous learning is her mission.
Dr. Nicholas also keeps engaged by presenting papers at national and international scholarly conferences and speaking to international businesses and professional organizations. Some of her works have been published as a book, a chapter in an encyclopedia, and in scholarly journals.
Her research interests include electronic monitoring in the workplace, benefit corporations, generational studies with a particular focus on Millennials, e-book and e-textbook usage, best practices in learning management systems and online education, human resource management, knowledge management, social responsibility and teleworking.
Patrick J. O'Malley, Ph.D.
Adjunct Fellow | MBA and Management
A Rhode Island native, Dr. Patrick O’Malley is a Spain-based professor in comparative law, business ethics and international relations matters at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, as well as other schools in France, Italy, Portugal, Guatemala, Canada and the Ivory Coast. Stateside, he also teaches at Salve Regina and Providence College in Rhode Island. He is also an international corporate and securities lawyer, dual qualified as an attorney both in the United States and in England and Wales.
Most of Dr. O’Malley’s courses cover comparative United States-European Union corporate and securities law issues, as well as other comparative law topics. He has especially focused on issues of international corporate governance, transparency and global efforts to combat corporate corruption/bribery, as well as Catholic Social Teaching and how it applies to corporate law and social responsibility. He speaks fluent Italian, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Dr. O’Malley is a graduate of Providence College, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and Boston College Law School, and he received his Ph.D. summa cum laude in 2015 from the Universidad de Navarra.